Brooklyn Mutt

Feb 10

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producermatthew:

Meet the Naval ship that will be named for former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords [source: US Navy]

“Now this is happening.” - @daveweigel at CPAC

“I’m afraid, and I don’t know where to go.” — Hamza Kashgari, Saudi blogger’s tweets about prophet Muhammad stir Islamists to call for his execution - The Washington Post

“A conservative a moderate and a liberal walk into a bar. And the bartender goes, ‘Hi Mitt’” —

Santorum Super PAC funder Foster Friess (via think-progress)

Conserva-burn!

(via stfuconservatives)

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@Mark Follman: Classy! T-shirt with Marine pissing on dead Taliban for sale at CPAC.

Mother Jones

CPAC Swag

World Press Photo of the year

The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected a picture by Samuel Aranda as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. 

PhotoBlog

Feb 09

thenewrepublic:

JFK, Monster?

“I knew that John F. Kennedy was a compulsive, even pathological adulterer, given to taking outlandish risks after he entered the White House. I knew he treated women like whores. And I knew he had more than a few issues with his father about toughness and manliness and all that.”

— Timothy Noah, “JFK, Monster”

But Did Kennedy have an appetite for subjecting those close to him to extreme humiliation? Should we re-evaluate our esteem for America’s 35th president in light of recent revelations?

Photo courtesy of the International Business Times.

guardian:

Photograph: Cartoon Movement/VJMovement/LSE

The London School of Economics is hosting an exhibition of cartoons that address issues of justice and security. The images are provided by the VJM’s Cartoon Movement, a global collaborative platform for editorial cartoons and comics journalism. The exhibition in London runs until 17 February

theatlantic:

In our March issue: James Fallows takes measure of President Obama, Raymond Bonner chronicles an unlikely battle against the death penalty, the last review of Christopher Hitchens, and more. Read the whole issue at The Atlantic

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“Lawrence O’Donnell will soon have another cancelled show to go along with his three cancelled TV series, “Mister Sterling”, “The Kill Point” and “First Monday”. @lawrence is a poor man’s Ed Schultz (who replaced @Lawrence) and Al Sharpton. He was moved to 10PM due to bad ratings and taken off Friday due to being totally irrelevant. He desperately needs to keep making up false statements about me to get attention. Without clips of me, his show would be completely dead and he knows it. As I have said many times before @Lawrence is the dumbest man on television. He is only angry because I would never have wasted my time doing his completely irrelevant show.” —

Trump’s unhinged attack on Lawrence O’Donnell  - HuffPo

O’Donnell responded to Trump’s message and tweeted, “@realDonaldTrump Wrong again. I’ve had more cancelled shows than that.”

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Running for President of the United States is really one series of humiliations after another, but it’s also a very educational experience.

I know where John Wayne was born.

I know the day Elvis Presley was born.

Thirdly, I learned never forget the three things that you learn.